Google Goes Looooooooonger, Supersizes Its Search Box

Today the search giant implemented and announced a subtle but noticeable change to the size of the search text field on the Google home page: it's bigger. It also features a larger font size as you type in the field, with correspondingly larger text for Google Suggest results below (that are occasionally good for a laugh).

The company says the reason behind the change is to remind us that Google's focus is on search. That's a relief, because with that smaller text box in place before, we just weren't sure. Check out a visual comparison of the before and after below.

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